Instruction outfit for children



' 1,562,225 R. H, GARMANV I INSTRUCTION OUTFIT FOR CHILDREN Nov. 17, 1925'.

Filed Jan. 2, 1925 lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I of Illinois,

useful Improvements in Instruction Outfits the child much 55 designs.

Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE...

RAYMOND II. GARNIAN, OF \ITILMETTE, ILLINOIS.

INSTRUCTION OUTFIT FOR CHILDREN.

Application filed January 2, 1925. Serial m. 213.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RAYMoNoI-I. GARMAN, a citizen of the Unite'd States, residing at Wilmette, in the county of Cook and State have invented certain new and for Children, ofwhichthe following a specification.

This invention has to do with improvements in outfits for theinstruction and training of little children. At the same time it has to do with an outfit which will afford pleasure and recreation in its use as well as giving instruction and training inithe use of its various faculties.

The main object of the invention is to provide an outfit which is so arranged that the child can produce colored ictures anddesigns of difl'erent kinds wit out having to use paints or colored crayons or other similar equipment of a nature which is 'mussy and undesirable for the use of children from other standpoints.

A further object ofrthe' invention .to 5 provide an outfit of such nature and arrange ment that the child will betrainedin an elementary manner in the use ofi'ts faculties of co-ordination and association. For this purpose, one ofthe objects of the invention is to provide an outfit having parts of co-ordinated shape and design, so that the child must needs bring them into proper relationship in order to complete the design.

Another object of the invention is to provide an arrangement whereby when the different parts are properly related, complete designs of striking appearance and color will be produced, or designs closel imitating and representing such objects as. ower pots wit 40 growin plants, .etc. i j v Brie y stated, my invention consists in the provision of one or moresheets having marked hereon the outlines of simple objects which are to be colored, or the outlines 4 of materialand disconnectedportions of together with a series of S8C- such objects, I \tions of a per or the like cut to fit the be.-

iorementioned outlines, such cut out arts f each being colored with a single bloc of color accordin'gto' the colors of the desi s which they are to fill, and being prefera ly gummed on their reverse-sides, so that they are readily applicable in permanent fashion to their respective locations on the sheet of It is further iintended to associate j such cut out portions directly with the sheet to which they refer by providing a suitable envelope or other receptacle within which they are retained prior to actual use.

Other objects anduses of the invention will appear from a detailed description of the same, which consists in the features-of construction and combinations of partshereinaiter described and claimed.

In the drawings: I I Figure 1 shows a perspective view of an opened book embodying the features of the present invention, and having 'onits exposed page a simple series of outlines to which the cut out andblock colored parts may be applied, and having on the inside face of the book cover a pocket or envelope for the reception of the out out sections which" are illustrated as being contained within a transparent slip partially set into the envelope;

Fig. 2 shows a face view of a pair of pages of the book of Fig. 1; and I Fig. 3 shows twocut out parts of difhaving t e outlined design thereon, and to which the cut out sections are supposed to be applied.

pages 4.. In Fig. 2, one of these pages 5*is illustrated. On these pages there are formed various outlines such, for example, as stars The book illustrated includes a number of 7," large bars 8, short bars 9, as well as others which do not require specification.

Corresponding to the different outlines I provide 0 out paper or similar members 14, 16, etc., corresponding to the difl'erent outlines which are tobe treated. These out out sections are of the same size and shape as the outlines to which they are to be applied. For example, the stars14= and 16 are intended to be, applied to two of the star spaces indicated in Fig. 2, (it being under. stoodthat the cut out sections in Fig. 3 are on somewhat larger scale thanthe outlines illustrated in Fig. 2).-

Eachf these sect1ons is distinctively colored with a single block color as represented by. the difierent directions of the shading on the different partsillustrated' in Fig.3. For I example, the stars 14 and 16 may berespectively blue and red. Many other cut out parts may be providedcorresponding to the needs of the outfit.

I also prefer to provide an envelope 17' on the book cover 18, so that the various cut out' sections 14, 16 may be placed in a slip 19 p In a childs instructive outfit for the purpose specified, a sheet or leaf having thereon individual disconnected outlines to be colored, said outlines being each self-contained and disconnected from other outlines, tQether with a series of die-cut paper sections each of proper size and shape to fit into and completelyv occupy .one-of the aforesaid outlines, each of the aforesaid diecut sections being colored on its top surface with a solid blockof a single color and gummed on its lower surface for direct attachment to the sheet' within the intended outline, whereby said die-cut paper sections when so attached serve to completely occupy and completely color the outlines within which they are placed and produce an at-- tractive ornamental design orpattern of disconnected units of solid color blocks, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

' RAYMOND H. GARMAN. 

